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Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States

Celello, Kristin

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral SociologyRelationships

ISBN10: 0807872210
ISBN13: 9780807872215
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as work. Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness.

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